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| Saying - Author |
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| Bad gains are true losses. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Bad is called good when worse happens. Norwegian (on relative worth) |
| Be careful what you ask for; you may get it. - unknown (Thanks to J. Martin) |
| Be careful what you wish for. - unknown |
| Be ever vigilant but never suspicious. - English (on vigilance) |
| Be gracious in defeat. - unknown |
| Be it ever so humble there's no place like home. - unknown |
| Be just before you are generous. - E. Haywood (1745) |
| Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down. - Jimmy Durante |
| Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel and countenance. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Be not overcome by evil but repay evil with good. - Bible |
| Be not water, taking the tint of all colors. - Syrian (on authenticity) |
| Be slow in choosing a friend, slower still in changing. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Be sure you are right, then go ahead. - Davy Crockett (1786-1836) |
| Be the change you wish to see in the world. - Ghandi |
| Be the first in the field and the last to the couch. - Chinese (on work) |
| Be true to yourself. - unknown |
| Bear and forbear. - unknown |
| Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. - Greek Proverb |
| Beauty is only skin deep. - Sir Thomas Overbury (1581-1613) |
| Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume. - French (on beauty) |
| Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion. - Egyptian (on caution and care) |
| Before healing others, heal yourself.- Gambian (on health and wellness) |
| Before you marry keep both eyes open; after marriage keep one eye shut.- Jamaican (on marriage) |
| Beggars can't be choosers. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580) |
| Beginning is easy; continuing, hard. - Japanese (on permanence and change) |
| Behind every argument lies someone's ignorance. - Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) |
| Being happy is better than being king. - Hausa (West African) (on comparable worth) |
| Believe in yourself. - unknown |
| Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see. - unknown |
| Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one. - Chinese (on comparable worth) |
| Better a thousand enemies outside the tent than one within it. - Arabic (on friends and foes) |
| Better late than never. - Roman Proverb |
| Better one true friend than a hundred relatives. - Italian (on friendship) |
| Better slip with foot than tongue. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Better ten times ill than one time dead.- Yiddish (on health and wellness) |
| Better the devil you know than the one you don't - R. Taverner (1539) |
| Better to ask the way than go astray. - unknown |
| Better to ask twice than to lose your way. - Danish (on practicality) |
| Better to be safe than sorry. - Samuel Lover (1797-1868) |
| Better to give than to receive. - Bible (Acts 20:35) |
| Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Better yourself before others. - Darren Bateman |
| Beware a rickety wall, a savage dog and a quarrelsome person. - Iranian (on caution and care) |
| Beware of little expenses: a small leak will sink a great ship. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Beware of the person with two faces.- Dutch (on hypocrisy) |
| Beware the door with too many keys. - Portuguese (on vigilance) |
| Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden (1631-1700) |
| Beware the Greeks bearing gifts. - Virgil (70-19 BC) "I fear the Greeks even when bearing gifts." |
| Beware the person with nothing to lose. - Italian (on prudence) |
| Birds of a feather, flock together. - Robert Burton (1577-1640) |
| Blood is thicker than water. - German Proverb |
| Bloom where you're planted. - unknown |
| Boys, be ambitious. - William Smith Clark (1826-1886) |
| Brains are better than brawn. - unknown |
| Bread, oil, Salt and Heart - Albanian ( on honoring the guest) thanks to kravetsmaksim |
| Bury the hatchet beneath the root of the tree. - Native American Saying (on war and peace) |
| But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads. - Albert Camus |
| Butterflies come to pretty flowers. - Korean (on beauty) |
| Buyer beware. - Latin Proverb "Caveat emptor" |
| Buying on credit is robbing next year's crop. - African American (on buying and selling) |
| By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| By crawling, a child learns to stand. - Hausa (West African) (on experience) |
| By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest. - Ashanti (West African) (on persistence) |
